Tucker, on training run, dies when his P-38 fighter crashes at Wayside Honor Rancho (later Pichess Detention Center) in Castaic. October 1: Actor William S. Hart's sister and co-habitant in Newhall, Mary Ellen Hart, dies. 1944 April 29: U.S. release of "Outlaw Trail" starring Hoot...
Built out of the disassembled timbers of the 1797 Constellation, this corvette sloop-of-war was in service for close to a century, including a stint in a blockade during the American Civil War, before its retirement to museum duty at Baltimore Harbor in 1954. While the ship’s main part i...
In his 1855 essay “The Critic at Chess,” McCune Smith described another way that people of African origin contributed to the arts, highlighting an example in which he believed Congolese warriors influenced white European literature. He perceived the rhythm and structure of a Congolese war chant...
Disney PlusQueen of KatweIf you're in the mood for a feel-good movie with a story of triumph over adversity, Queen of Katwe will more than satisfy. The best part is that it's based on atruestory about the first titled female chess player in Ugandan chess history, Phiona Mu...
In this segment of the Pinch of the Past, we talk about the history of Chess, Backgammon, and Go. Most of the games that have survived for centuries involve intense strategy and lots of abstract thinking. I’m not sure what exactly that indicates–maybe they were born of long winters of...
As William the Conqueror had once promised this captain the privilege of taking the royal family across the Channel, King Henry now bade his son William sail in it. The king's vessel set out ahead, but the prince delayed, spending the last hours in Normandy in feasting. He sent plenty ...
The story of Iraqi agents handing flasks of anthrax to 9/11 hijackers was a little too fanciful even for the credulous American public, however, and it was soon dropped from the neocons’ sales pitch for the Iraq war.Instead, a different set of lies would need to be found to sell ...
In the year 2002, she was estimated to have been the second-highest-paid model in the world.Outside of modeling, Kass ran for the European Parliament in 2004 and was the president of the Estonian Chess Federation from 2004 to 2011. Also ranks #92 on Victoria's Secret's Most Stunning ...
much and he will simply leave Earth(The Death of Overgirl, Earth X's Supergirl likely occurring and not helping matters), leaving a power vaccuum that will cause or worsen the chaos we see in TNO and Man in the High Castle as a result of removing a powerful chess piece off the ...
Chess prodigy Bobby Fischer (Tobey Maguire) takes on the Soviet Union and Boris Spassky (Liev Schreiber). Penguin Bloom After an accident leaves a mother paralyzed, the family cares for an injured magpie, which helps them heal. The People v. O.J. Simpson Meet 27 characters and their real...